Shopping

Even if this interior design store is really big, it has a homey feeling and that’s why so many people enjoy spending sometime here.

The building is placed in an old yard next to Garibaldi train station and it used to be an ink factory in the late XIX when it was built. Big windows, high ceiling, open space, concrete floor: the structure is still industrial. Different spaces on many levels are connected by some steps or unexpected corners, like a big labyrinth of design.

Each product sold in this store comes from a refined choice and wants to represent innovation and creativity in design. You can find clothes, perfumery, stationery, but also pieces of furniture, kitchen and bathroom accessories and a lot of ideas for your gifts.

Every time I come here I can’t help fantasizing about my dream apartment and the style it would have. Since I must wait some time for it, I am glad there’s a place where I can at least gather some cute ideas!

This store opened at the beginning of 2010. When they were renovating the space I was always looking through the windows trying to guess what they were working on. I noticed an old and classical structure painted with bright colours and I couldn’t get what the project was about.

I found out this place used to be a cloister, back in the days. It’s been totally renovated, in the respect of the old structure, and now it’s a huge clothing clothes store, for men and women. They sell different brands, in a range between street and new hippy style. Prices are average and the quality is good.

It’s fun just having a look around, to appreciate the intricate architecture and the design project: there are some kitsch details like old columns painted in gold, arty furniture such as sofas composed with old and worn fabrics and curious objects (a fence made by fake rifles full of flowers). Peace and love.

This is a cute little shop where you can find handmade clothes, shoes and bags. They change collections very often and each piece feels like unique. The quality of the material is high and refined while the price is very affordable. The outfit are simple but the fabrics and the textiles are really special.

You can jump in and just have a look or try on different pieces and ask an advice to the sales women, who are always very friendly and helpful.

Small things is located in a busy shopping street of Brera, the art galleries neighbourhood. In this area you can find high end expensive shops next to old boutiques.

In Small things I once found the most beautiful pair of shoes I have ever seen: a simple brown décolleté with a thick and high heel painted like a seventies wallpaper. Too bad, there wasn’t my size! But that’s the price you have to pay for handmade stuff.

Are you addicted to high heels like Carrie Bradshaw, the main character of Sex and the city? If your answer is yes, I would recommend you to visit this shop.

I don’t wear high heels every day but I bought the few pairs I have in this shop, because the quality is really high and the choice is large. Unfortunately prices are not small either, but I must say these shoes are really comfortable and last a long time. You can choose among different refined brands, styles and “heights”. They have from thin and embarrassing high heels to thicker and smaller ones until flat and sober shoes. From extravagant models and colours to more classical shapes.

There are two Guja shops, one is more central, next to red line Cairoli stop, and the other one in the shopping street Corso Vercelli 23 (red line Pagano stop).

Going back to Carrie Bradshaw, in one episode she just said that “the fact is, sometimes it’s hard to walk in a single woman’s shoes. That’s why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun”.

The English word for Panpepato is gingerbread.

“Style is the dress for thoughts” is Martina and Giulia’s payoff for their 4 years old shop.

In front of Parco Solari, a quiet garden in the centre of Milano, this is a really special place for handmade fashion with a Parisian touch.

In Panpepato you can buy clothes for women and kids designed and produced by the owners: haute couture between art and craftsmanship. Clothes have an original and always different variety of shapes, fashionable but never obvious. The shop also is a place for other craftsmen’s creations, like jewellery, bags, accessories, belts.

I have a couple of dresses I bought here and every time I wear them someone tells me: “That’s so cute! Where did you buy it?”. This is why Panpepato’s clients come back for more and are always satisfied.

If you buy something you’re welcome to send a picture of you to their nice blog: http://www.panpepato.blogspot.com/.